WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.920 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. J. Carroll Nash. 00:10.920 --> 00:14.020 In tonight's presentation of... 00:14.020 --> 00:16.020 Suspense. 00:16.020 --> 00:25.740 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story about buried treasure, a real buried treasure and 00:25.740 --> 00:41.000 a curse, a tale we call The Treasure Chest of Don Jose, starring Mr. J. Carroll Nash. 00:41.000 --> 00:42.800 Hey, Hap, what are you doing? 00:42.800 --> 00:47.000 Well, getting a fast start with my Auto Light stay full battery, Harlow. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.200 Ah, you bet, fast and dependable. 00:49.200 --> 00:53.600 And best of all, that Auto Light stay full needs water only three times a year in normal 00:53.600 --> 00:54.600 car use. 00:54.600 --> 00:55.600 I know why, Harlow. 00:55.600 --> 00:56.600 Sure you do, Hap. 00:56.600 --> 01:00.680 It's because the Auto Light stay full has over three times the liquid reserve of batteries 01:00.680 --> 01:02.200 without stay full features. 01:02.200 --> 01:03.200 Right, Harlow. 01:03.200 --> 01:06.820 So friends, visit your nearby Auto Light battery dealer soon. 01:06.820 --> 01:11.000 He services all makes of batteries and has an Auto Light stay full for your car if a 01:11.000 --> 01:12.520 replacement is needed. 01:12.520 --> 01:16.240 To quickly learn his location, just phone Western Union by number... 01:16.240 --> 01:20.840 And ask me, Operator 25, and I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light 01:20.840 --> 01:22.320 battery dealer. 01:22.320 --> 01:28.120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:28.120 --> 01:34.600 And now with The Treasure Chest of Don Jose and the performance of Mr. J. Carroll Nash, 01:34.600 --> 01:43.880 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:43.880 --> 01:46.120 This is not a pretty story. 01:46.120 --> 01:49.440 There is blood in it, the blood of men and women. 01:49.440 --> 01:52.440 There is a curse in it and gold. 01:52.440 --> 01:54.400 But it is a funny story. 01:54.400 --> 01:58.640 It is a joke, a great joke I cannot laugh at. 01:58.640 --> 02:08.280 It is a joke on me. 02:08.280 --> 02:12.240 In matters of this sort, secrecy is of the most importance. 02:12.240 --> 02:15.280 In matters of this sort, no man is your friend. 02:15.280 --> 02:17.340 Once I had a friend. 02:17.340 --> 02:21.360 We lived together in my little house on Black Cay down in the Gulf of Mexico. 02:21.360 --> 02:25.720 But then the hurricane struck and everything was different. 02:25.720 --> 02:29.440 The wind blew for two nights and a day and when the waves piled up on the cay and swept 02:29.440 --> 02:34.640 away the house, it was my friend Pedro who dragged me away unconscious and lashed me 02:34.640 --> 02:38.680 to a ring bolt on our little dock and saved my life. 02:38.680 --> 02:43.320 Next day the sun was shining again, but there was nothing left on my little island. 02:43.320 --> 02:46.800 The splintered planks that once had been the house of my father were scattered among the 02:46.800 --> 02:52.200 stripped palm trees and even the big chimney that was built by my great grandfather was 02:52.200 --> 02:54.640 a pile of broken bricks. 02:54.640 --> 03:02.800 There was nothing but blue sea and a bright sun and heaviness in my heart. 03:02.800 --> 03:03.960 Even the chimney. 03:03.960 --> 03:05.720 What would you expect from such a wind? 03:05.720 --> 03:07.280 Ay, my friend. 03:07.280 --> 03:10.520 So now at last the curse of the Gasparillas has fallen on you. 03:10.520 --> 03:11.520 Curse? 03:11.520 --> 03:12.520 You speak foolishness. 03:12.520 --> 03:13.680 It was a hurricane. 03:13.680 --> 03:17.520 So it was, but a hurricane sent especially to destroy you. 03:17.520 --> 03:20.320 You cannot believe that silly tale. 03:20.320 --> 03:24.840 Did not your father perish from a bolt of lightning that struck him from a cloudless 03:24.840 --> 03:25.840 sky? 03:25.840 --> 03:26.840 The doctor said it was a heart attack. 03:26.840 --> 03:30.440 And your grandfather pulled into the sea by a giant octopus. 03:30.440 --> 03:32.560 He was washed overboard during a squall. 03:32.560 --> 03:37.880 And all because of his father Don Jose, the king of the pirates, and the curse put upon 03:37.880 --> 03:42.160 him and all the Gasparillas by the beautiful Dona Margarita who preferred death. 03:42.160 --> 03:45.320 Oh, you frat like a schoolboy, you who have never been one day to school. 03:45.320 --> 03:56.080 Come, come, we will clear up this mess and build a house over again. 03:56.080 --> 04:00.960 You should know that I endured a certain local notoriety since I bore the same name and was 04:00.960 --> 04:06.000 the great-great-grandson of Don Jose Gasparilla, one of the last and one of the fiercest of 04:06.000 --> 04:08.960 the pirates of the Spanish main. 04:08.960 --> 04:13.320 This was much less interest and concern to me than it was to my friends and acquaintances 04:13.320 --> 04:15.600 among the Florida Keys. 04:15.600 --> 04:20.200 Neither my father nor his father before him had ever profited by a single doubloon from 04:20.200 --> 04:23.880 the legendary treasure of our pirate forebear. 04:23.880 --> 04:29.160 As to the curse pronounced on Don Jose by the proud and virtuous Dona Margarita, I gave 04:29.160 --> 04:34.280 it as little credence as I did the recurrent tales of Gasparilla's buried treasure. 04:34.280 --> 04:39.400 But that was before Pedro and I set about clearing up the hurricane's mess. 04:39.400 --> 04:43.920 We were stacking brick from the Demala's chimney when Pedro made a discovery. 04:43.920 --> 04:46.240 Jose, look at this. 04:46.240 --> 04:47.240 What is it? 04:47.240 --> 04:53.040 Seems to be a box, little iron box, the size and shape of a brick. 04:53.040 --> 04:54.040 Let me see it. 04:54.040 --> 04:57.200 There was a lot there but it's rusted away. 04:57.200 --> 05:04.200 Hand me that pinch bar. 05:04.200 --> 05:05.920 There's a paper inside. 05:05.920 --> 05:09.040 Yes, it's very old. 05:09.040 --> 05:10.520 What does it say Jose? 05:10.520 --> 05:14.640 Oh nothing, it's just an old paper. 05:14.640 --> 05:15.640 Looks like a... 05:15.640 --> 05:16.640 Looks like a poem. 05:16.640 --> 05:17.640 Yes, yes. 05:17.640 --> 05:18.640 I remember now. 05:18.640 --> 05:22.720 It is a nursery rhyme from my father and then he copied it for me when I was a little boy. 05:22.720 --> 05:25.240 But what's he doing in this old iron box? 05:25.240 --> 05:27.440 Oh, I must have hidden it away once when I was playing. 05:27.440 --> 05:28.520 Well, well amigo, come. 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 We shall get back to work. 05:29.520 --> 05:38.480 It was a lucky thing Pedro could not read. 05:38.480 --> 05:40.680 Nursery rhyme. 05:40.680 --> 05:47.280 That rotting piece of parchment said, on Dog Buddies Island you could fare worse if dare 05:47.280 --> 05:49.760 you will Don Jose's curse. 05:49.760 --> 05:56.040 For there, three and thirty yards south-southeast of the Rocky Guards, you'll find a pleasantly 05:56.040 --> 06:00.960 fulsome measure of Gasparia's earthly treasure. 06:00.960 --> 06:04.560 There could be no question about it. 06:04.560 --> 06:08.280 Here was at last a tangible clue to the hidden goal of my ancestor. 06:08.280 --> 06:10.200 It was mine if I could find it. 06:10.200 --> 06:12.760 And why should I share it with anyone, even Pedro? 06:12.760 --> 06:15.160 I was the rightful heir and I would claim it all. 06:15.160 --> 06:18.960 So that night I took our only boat and rode to the mainland. 06:18.960 --> 06:23.000 I spent two days in the public library in Key West searching the old charts before I 06:23.000 --> 06:25.320 found Dog Buddies Island. 06:25.320 --> 06:28.880 It was a tiny sand spit near the tip of Cape Cod. 06:28.880 --> 06:32.320 I withdrew all of my money from the bank, bought a suit of city clothes and an airplane 06:32.320 --> 06:33.320 ticket north. 06:33.320 --> 06:38.360 And the next day I was standing on a cold, windy Massachusetts beach talking to a suspicious 06:38.360 --> 06:39.760 real estate agent. 06:39.760 --> 06:45.560 No sir, I ain't heard this called Dog Buddies Island since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. 06:45.560 --> 06:48.120 Where'd you hear it called Dog Buddies Island? 06:48.120 --> 06:49.440 Well, I really don't know. 06:49.440 --> 06:51.280 Some friend of mine down south maybe. 06:51.280 --> 06:53.880 Well, it's called Sprague Spit now. 06:53.880 --> 06:55.840 Ever since old Captain Sprague bought her up. 06:55.840 --> 06:59.520 Of course, she always was connected with the mainland at low tide. 06:59.520 --> 07:01.280 You can see the sandbar over yonder. 07:01.280 --> 07:03.040 Yes, yes, I see her. 07:03.040 --> 07:04.040 Now about the house. 07:04.040 --> 07:08.160 Well, there she is, just above that point of rocks. 07:08.160 --> 07:09.760 Just a summer cottage. 07:09.760 --> 07:11.920 Too dang uncomfortable this time of the year. 07:11.920 --> 07:13.320 Well, it looks all right to me. 07:13.320 --> 07:15.800 I can find you something heapsite better in town. 07:15.800 --> 07:17.920 Got a nice little house just back of a gas station. 07:17.920 --> 07:19.880 Well, I'm looking for solitude. 07:19.880 --> 07:21.680 You'll find plenty of that out here. 07:21.680 --> 07:24.280 Ain't a neighbor more than a mile and a half. 07:24.280 --> 07:27.640 That point of rocks, is that the only one on the island? 07:27.640 --> 07:28.640 Yeah. 07:28.640 --> 07:30.840 Pirate's Point, folks call it hereabouts. 07:30.840 --> 07:34.920 A fella says the buccaneers used to put in here for water in the old days. 07:34.920 --> 07:38.040 Me, I don't put much stock in them stories myself. 07:38.040 --> 07:40.640 Eh, you sure you want to rent this place? 07:40.640 --> 07:42.440 It is just what I am looking for. 07:42.440 --> 07:44.600 I wish you wouldn't. 07:44.600 --> 07:47.440 It said there's a curse on it. 07:47.440 --> 07:53.680 I wish you wouldn't. 07:53.680 --> 07:57.040 It was perfect, my little rented cottage on the beach. 07:57.040 --> 08:01.480 Quiet, secluded, and yet within view of that rocky point, which must be the same one that 08:01.480 --> 08:04.400 Jose called the Rocky Guards. 08:04.400 --> 08:08.400 There was a stack of firewood beside the kitchen door, and in a shed back of the house there 08:08.400 --> 08:10.160 was even a long handle shovel. 08:10.160 --> 08:14.800 A most fortunate circumstance, since I did not want to create any suspicion in town by 08:14.800 --> 08:16.360 purchasing one. 08:16.360 --> 08:19.000 I can tell you I scarcely slept that first night. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.920 So great was my eagerness to be up in the morning, pace the three and thirty yards south-southeast 08:23.920 --> 08:28.560 of the Rocky Guards, and begin digging for my treasure. 08:28.560 --> 08:32.960 Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two. 08:32.960 --> 08:33.960 Morning. 08:33.960 --> 08:38.760 Oh, oh, good morning. 08:38.760 --> 08:40.560 Looks like it's going to be a nice day. 08:40.560 --> 08:41.560 Yes, yes it does. 08:41.560 --> 08:43.560 Going to do some digging? 08:43.560 --> 08:45.120 I beg your pardon? 08:45.120 --> 08:47.160 I see you've got a shovel. 08:47.160 --> 08:48.760 Looks like you're going to do some digging. 08:48.760 --> 08:50.400 Oh, yes, yes, clams. 08:50.400 --> 08:52.240 I'm going to dig for clams. 08:52.240 --> 08:53.760 No clams in the surf. 08:53.760 --> 08:54.760 Oh, there aren't? 08:54.760 --> 08:55.760 No. 08:55.760 --> 08:56.760 Find them on the bay side. 08:56.760 --> 08:58.720 Oh, then I'll look over there. 08:58.720 --> 08:59.720 Don't dig them with a shovel. 08:59.720 --> 09:00.720 Got to use a rake. 09:00.720 --> 09:01.720 Oh, is that so? 09:01.720 --> 09:02.720 Yeah. 09:02.720 --> 09:05.160 It's too late now, anyway. 09:05.160 --> 09:06.160 Tides coming in. 09:06.160 --> 09:08.240 Another low tide at five this afternoon. 09:08.240 --> 09:09.240 Oh, I didn't know. 09:09.240 --> 09:10.960 I'm a stranger here. 09:10.960 --> 09:11.960 Yeah, I know. 09:11.960 --> 09:14.560 Heard you'd rented the Davis place. 09:14.560 --> 09:16.760 I'm chief of police of Quikasset. 09:16.760 --> 09:18.840 Oh, anything wrong? 09:18.840 --> 09:19.840 No. 09:19.840 --> 09:23.280 Town limits come all the way out here, though. 09:23.280 --> 09:25.440 Going to stay here long? 09:25.440 --> 09:26.440 I don't know. 09:26.440 --> 09:27.440 A few weeks. 09:27.440 --> 09:28.440 Maybe all winter. 09:28.440 --> 09:30.480 Are you a writing fellow? 09:30.480 --> 09:31.480 No. 09:31.480 --> 09:32.480 Painting fellow? 09:32.480 --> 09:33.480 No. 09:33.480 --> 09:34.480 Just taking a vacation? 09:34.480 --> 09:35.480 Yes, yes. 09:35.480 --> 09:37.520 You might call it that. 09:37.520 --> 09:38.520 Beats me. 09:38.520 --> 09:42.480 Well, nice to have this talk with you. 09:42.480 --> 09:54.480 Everything you need in the way of police protection is let me know. 09:54.480 --> 09:56.200 He couldn't know. 09:56.200 --> 09:57.680 How could he know? 09:57.680 --> 09:59.720 Nobody knew about the treasure clue but me. 09:59.720 --> 10:04.520 Yet he seemed so suspicious and they asked me so many questions. 10:04.520 --> 10:09.160 Well, I went back to the house set by the window until he was out of sight up the beach. 10:09.160 --> 10:14.080 But by that time the tide had come in and the treasure was buried by the ocean. 10:14.080 --> 10:19.000 So I waited until five o'clock when the tide was low and then carrying a gasoline lantern 10:19.000 --> 10:25.680 I paced off the 33 yard south southeast of the Rocky Guards and set to work. 10:25.680 --> 10:30.420 Although the evening was chilled with a brisk breeze blowing in from the sea, I soon had 10:30.420 --> 10:32.520 shed my coat and was dripping with perspiration. 10:32.520 --> 10:35.520 I lost all track of time and place and my own identity. 10:35.520 --> 10:40.320 I was a machine attacking the wet sliding sand with huge bites of my shovel, widening 10:40.320 --> 10:44.760 the hole as it grew deeper until my lantern threw long shadows across the opening that 10:44.760 --> 10:47.800 had now become large enough for a coffin. 10:47.800 --> 10:49.680 Then my shovel hit something solid. 10:49.680 --> 10:54.240 I reached for my lantern and there under its lifeless green glare was a section of rotting 10:54.240 --> 10:55.240 wood. 10:55.240 --> 10:56.880 I shoveled wet sand to one side. 10:56.880 --> 10:59.360 There was a rusted iron strap. 10:59.360 --> 11:00.800 I had found it. 11:00.800 --> 11:02.460 An iron bound chest. 11:02.460 --> 11:06.240 The treasure chest of Don Jose Gasparilla. 11:06.240 --> 11:10.240 It was almost too much to bear. 11:10.240 --> 11:13.520 Suddenly my dampened shirt chilled me and I was seized with a fit of shivering. 11:13.520 --> 11:16.960 Then I began crying like a frightened child. 11:16.960 --> 11:21.080 How long I crouched there in this agony of relief and joy I cannot tell but suddenly 11:21.080 --> 11:31.160 above the sound of my own sobs and the pounding surf and the sighing wind I heard voices. 11:31.160 --> 11:35.720 Who came now to violate my supreme moment? 11:35.720 --> 11:39.280 Who now threatened to deprive me of what was rightfully mine? 11:39.280 --> 11:41.640 I turned the lantern out, scrambled from the hole. 11:41.640 --> 11:45.160 A few yards away I could see the beam of a flashlight slowly approaching. 11:45.160 --> 11:49.600 I ran, hid behind a ledge of rocks, my heart drumming in my ears, my held breath screaming 11:49.600 --> 11:53.320 in my tightened throat, trying to listen, trying to see. 11:53.320 --> 12:09.760 What were they doing? 12:09.760 --> 12:10.760 Did they know? 12:10.760 --> 12:12.280 At last it was quiet. 12:12.280 --> 12:15.640 I watched their light as they made their way across the island toward the bay. 12:15.640 --> 12:19.160 And then after a long time I heard the cough of a motorboat. 12:19.160 --> 12:23.440 And I waited until the sound of the receding motor was lost in the sighing wind and the 12:23.440 --> 12:24.760 hiss of the nearby surf. 12:24.760 --> 12:32.080 Then I lit my lantern and went back to my diggings. 12:32.080 --> 12:36.000 The hole, the hole it was half filled and suddenly my terror turned to rage. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.440 What, what had they done? 12:37.440 --> 12:39.360 I began digging savagely. 12:39.360 --> 12:43.440 But almost at once my shovel hit something, something that was softer than the chest and 12:43.440 --> 12:44.940 yielded to the pressure. 12:44.940 --> 12:50.880 I seized my lantern, crouched over for a closer examination and found myself looking into the 12:50.880 --> 13:11.520 still, open and vacantly staring eyes of a corpse. 13:11.520 --> 13:17.480 Radio Light is bringing you Mr. J. 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Carroll Nash in Elliot 14:50.480 --> 14:54.720 Lewis's production of The Treasure Chest of Don Jose. 14:54.720 --> 14:59.480 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 14:59.480 --> 15:00.480 Suspense! 15:00.480 --> 15:19.520 For a moment as I stared into the open eyes of the corpse, I had a strange feeling that 15:19.520 --> 15:24.200 he was one of Don Jose Gasparrio's men buried with the treasure chest to guard it through 15:24.200 --> 15:25.200 eternity. 15:25.200 --> 15:26.880 But this was ridiculous. 15:26.880 --> 15:30.600 The man was only recently dead, no 100 year old skeleton. 15:30.600 --> 15:35.800 He was young and well dressed, yet he stood between me and my treasure. 15:35.800 --> 15:40.600 Was this then the curse laid upon Don Jose come to rest at my feet? 15:40.600 --> 15:44.000 With the greatest effort, I covered the grizzly garden of my fortune. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.160 By then it must have been close to midnight. 15:46.160 --> 15:47.760 The tide was coming in. 15:47.760 --> 15:57.680 I dragged myself back to the house tormented by a thousand anxieties. 15:57.680 --> 16:00.280 Sometime toward dawn I must have fallen asleep. 16:00.280 --> 16:04.600 For the next thing I knew it was past noon and someone was pounding on my door. 16:04.600 --> 16:05.600 Hey! 16:05.600 --> 16:06.600 Anybody home? 16:06.600 --> 16:08.480 Just, just a minute. 16:08.480 --> 16:09.480 I'm coming. 16:09.480 --> 16:11.680 Oh, it's you, Chief. 16:11.680 --> 16:12.680 Good morning. 16:12.680 --> 16:13.680 Afternoon now. 16:13.680 --> 16:14.680 What? 16:14.680 --> 16:18.120 I'm sorry, I was sleeping. 16:18.120 --> 16:21.120 Thought you was dead. 16:21.120 --> 16:22.120 Dead? 16:22.120 --> 16:24.240 Took long enough to waken you. 16:24.240 --> 16:26.640 Excuse me, I had insomnia most of the night. 16:26.640 --> 16:27.640 Insomnia, huh? 16:27.640 --> 16:28.640 You mean you was awake? 16:28.640 --> 16:29.640 Yes. 16:29.640 --> 16:30.640 Most of the night, you say? 16:30.640 --> 16:31.640 Why, why yes. 16:31.640 --> 16:33.640 Hear anything peculiar out here? 16:33.640 --> 16:34.640 No, no, no. 16:34.640 --> 16:35.640 What do you mean? 16:35.640 --> 16:37.240 Prowlers or such. 16:37.240 --> 16:38.680 Why should anyone be prowling out here? 16:38.680 --> 16:39.680 Didn't say there was. 16:39.680 --> 16:41.360 I asked if you heard anyone. 16:41.360 --> 16:42.360 No, no, no, I didn't. 16:42.360 --> 16:43.360 Got a check. 16:43.360 --> 16:45.400 It's been in the town limit. 16:45.400 --> 16:46.400 Why? 16:46.400 --> 16:47.400 Is anything the matter? 16:47.400 --> 16:48.400 Yeah, kidnapping. 16:48.400 --> 16:49.400 Murder, maybe. 16:49.400 --> 16:50.400 What? 16:50.400 --> 16:51.400 Yeah. 16:51.400 --> 16:54.400 Ain't you heard it on the radio? 16:54.400 --> 16:55.400 I haven't got a radio. 16:55.400 --> 16:58.200 Sure, great consolation for a man living alone. 16:58.200 --> 16:59.200 What, what, what, what happened? 16:59.200 --> 17:00.200 Tell me. 17:00.200 --> 17:04.640 Young Harvard fellow, sinful rich, his father paid the ransom $20,000. 17:04.640 --> 17:07.360 But the kidnappers didn't deliver the boy. 17:07.360 --> 17:09.800 Got a three-state alarm out for him. 17:09.800 --> 17:11.600 Think they're on the Cape somewheres? 17:11.600 --> 17:12.600 Well, just checking. 17:12.600 --> 17:14.640 What makes you think they come out here? 17:14.640 --> 17:15.640 I don't know. 17:15.640 --> 17:20.040 Hunched partly, partly because somebody borrowed one of Jen Chantry's boats last night. 17:20.040 --> 17:23.120 Found a blood stain in the cockpit this morning. 17:23.120 --> 17:24.120 Didn't see him. 17:24.120 --> 17:26.120 No, no, I told you I didn't. 17:26.120 --> 17:27.120 Yeah, so you did. 17:27.120 --> 17:30.120 Well, we'll catch them, course, if they're on the Cape. 17:30.120 --> 17:32.800 Sooner or later, we'll catch them. 17:32.800 --> 17:34.960 Ransom money's in small bills, all marked. 17:34.960 --> 17:37.600 They'll get hungry sooner or later and spend some. 17:37.600 --> 17:40.000 Besides, we've got a pretty good description of them. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.160 Let me know if you see or hear anything. 17:42.160 --> 17:43.160 Yes, yes, of course. 17:43.160 --> 17:44.160 I'll be glad to. 17:44.160 --> 17:45.160 Yeah, just checking. 17:45.160 --> 17:55.600 Now there was no time to lose. 17:55.600 --> 17:57.800 I had already missed one low tide. 17:57.800 --> 18:01.440 I had to get my gold and get it away from this island of suspicion and debt. 18:01.440 --> 18:05.600 I waited until five o'clock and returned to my diggings. 18:05.600 --> 18:09.320 The low, scurrying clouds packed the sand with sudden gusts of icy rain. 18:09.320 --> 18:13.080 There was little likelihood that I would have one welcome visitors on such a forbidding 18:13.080 --> 18:14.080 evening. 18:14.080 --> 18:17.680 I quickly disinterred the body from my treasure hole. 18:17.680 --> 18:21.600 Unquestionably, he was the kidnapped victim, a young man dressed in flannel slacks and 18:21.600 --> 18:23.400 saddle shoes of a college boy. 18:23.400 --> 18:28.640 I dragged him to one side, out of sight behind some rocks where I couldn't see his empty 18:28.640 --> 18:29.640 death stare. 18:29.640 --> 18:32.320 Then I went back to my digging. 18:32.320 --> 18:36.920 By seven o'clock, I had uncovered the chest and was prepared to lift it out of its grave. 18:36.920 --> 18:37.920 The curse? 18:37.920 --> 18:38.920 No, no, no, no. 18:38.920 --> 18:42.560 The curse for here was the treasure and it was mine. 18:42.560 --> 18:46.920 I better give you a hand with that. 18:46.920 --> 18:47.920 What? 18:47.920 --> 18:49.840 He wants to know, do you need a hand with that? 18:49.840 --> 18:50.840 Who are you? 18:50.840 --> 18:51.840 What are you doing here? 18:51.840 --> 18:52.840 How did you get here? 18:52.840 --> 18:53.840 Low tide. 18:53.840 --> 18:54.840 I walked. 18:54.840 --> 18:57.840 Get out of the hole, Pop. 18:57.840 --> 18:58.840 Answer me. 18:58.840 --> 18:59.840 Help Pop out of the hole. 18:59.840 --> 19:00.840 Yeah. 19:00.840 --> 19:01.840 Come on, Pop. 19:01.840 --> 19:03.840 All right, where is it? 19:03.840 --> 19:04.840 What? 19:04.840 --> 19:05.840 It's gone. 19:05.840 --> 19:06.840 He got rid of it. 19:06.840 --> 19:07.840 Get him out of there. 19:07.840 --> 19:08.840 Okay, Pop, come on. 19:08.840 --> 19:09.840 No, no, let me go, please. 19:09.840 --> 19:10.840 Let me go. 19:10.840 --> 19:11.840 Where is it, Pop? 19:11.840 --> 19:12.840 What did you do with him? 19:12.840 --> 19:13.840 Do? 19:13.840 --> 19:14.840 Where's the kid? 19:14.840 --> 19:15.840 There. 19:15.840 --> 19:16.840 I put him there. 19:16.840 --> 19:17.840 Steve? 19:17.840 --> 19:18.840 Yeah. 19:18.840 --> 19:19.840 He's here. 19:19.840 --> 19:20.840 What are you trying to do, Pop? 19:20.840 --> 19:21.840 Why did you move him? 19:21.840 --> 19:22.840 What's he trying to do? 19:22.840 --> 19:23.840 He... he was... 19:23.840 --> 19:24.840 Was? 19:24.840 --> 19:25.840 Was what? 19:25.840 --> 19:26.840 Look in the hole. 19:26.840 --> 19:27.840 Yeah. 19:27.840 --> 19:28.840 No, no, no, don't. 19:28.840 --> 19:29.840 Don't move him. 19:29.840 --> 19:30.840 He's not moving. 19:30.840 --> 19:31.840 He's not moving. 19:31.840 --> 19:32.840 He's not moving. 19:32.840 --> 19:33.840 He's not moving. 19:33.840 --> 19:34.840 He's not moving. 19:34.840 --> 19:35.840 He's not moving. 19:35.840 --> 19:36.840 He's not moving. 19:36.840 --> 19:37.840 No, no, don't. 19:37.840 --> 19:40.840 There's a box in here. 19:40.840 --> 19:43.840 That's why you moved him, Pop, to get to the box. 19:43.840 --> 19:44.840 Give me a hand with this. 19:44.840 --> 19:45.840 Leave it alone. 19:45.840 --> 19:46.840 It's mine. 19:46.840 --> 19:47.840 Don't touch it. 19:47.840 --> 19:48.840 Shut up. 19:48.840 --> 19:49.840 Yeah. 19:49.840 --> 19:50.840 Sit. 19:50.840 --> 19:53.840 What do you got, Pop? 19:53.840 --> 19:54.840 Treasure? 19:54.840 --> 19:55.840 Buried treasure? 19:55.840 --> 19:56.840 Don't laugh. 19:56.840 --> 19:57.840 Maybe that's what it is. 19:57.840 --> 19:58.840 Let's get it out of there. 19:58.840 --> 19:59.840 Leave it alone. 19:59.840 --> 20:00.840 Leave it alone. 20:00.840 --> 20:05.840 I told you to shut up. 20:05.840 --> 20:12.840 All right, Steve, let's get it out of there. 20:12.840 --> 20:18.440 There it was, my treasure, in the sand-covered iron-bound box. 20:18.440 --> 20:20.720 Only it wasn't mine. 20:20.720 --> 20:24.640 Not while these two hoodlums stood over me with clenched fists and poised boots. 20:24.640 --> 20:28.240 At gun's point, they made me grasp one of the rusty handles, and one of them lifted 20:28.240 --> 20:32.560 the other, and they forced me to help carry it toward the house. 20:32.560 --> 20:33.560 My treasure. 20:33.560 --> 20:36.600 It was mine, and nobody could take it from me now. 20:36.600 --> 20:38.840 I must find a way to rescue it. 20:38.840 --> 20:43.400 When we got inside the house, they yanked open the chest and emptied one of the canvas 20:43.400 --> 20:48.560 sacks, its contents cascading onto the table in a golden stream of doubloons. 20:48.560 --> 20:50.560 Well, what do you know? 20:50.560 --> 20:51.560 Gold. 20:51.560 --> 20:52.560 It's mine. 20:52.560 --> 20:53.560 It belongs to me. 20:53.560 --> 20:54.560 It's my inheritance. 20:54.560 --> 20:55.560 Yeah, I know, Pop. 20:55.560 --> 20:58.560 Only you're going to pay a high inheritance tax, 100%. 20:58.560 --> 21:02.560 Okay, now, Pop, I'll tell you what we're going to do. 21:02.560 --> 21:06.560 My friend and me are in a little trouble, and you're going to give us a hand, aren't 21:06.560 --> 21:07.560 you, Pop? 21:07.560 --> 21:08.560 What are you talking about? 21:08.560 --> 21:09.560 Go away. 21:09.560 --> 21:10.560 Leave me alone. 21:10.560 --> 21:13.560 That's just what we're going to do. 21:13.560 --> 21:17.560 We're leaving, and we're taking that bright, shiny stuff with us. 21:17.560 --> 21:18.560 The treasure is mine. 21:18.560 --> 21:21.560 But we're going to be fair, more than fair. 21:21.560 --> 21:27.560 We're going to give you $20,000 in nice, up-to-date American money. 21:27.560 --> 21:28.560 How do we know? 21:28.560 --> 21:30.560 Maybe that junk of yours ain't worth half that much. 21:30.560 --> 21:31.560 Your money's marked. 21:31.560 --> 21:32.560 It's ransom money. 21:32.560 --> 21:34.560 That's beside the point. 21:34.560 --> 21:37.560 This dough of yours won't work in a cigarette machine, you know. 21:37.560 --> 21:40.560 You're going to have to go to a lot of trouble to cash it. 21:40.560 --> 21:41.560 What was that? 21:41.560 --> 21:44.560 When the blue opens, rain like the devil outside. 21:44.560 --> 21:45.560 Better get started. 21:45.560 --> 21:46.560 No, no, no, no. 21:46.560 --> 21:49.560 I won't let you. 21:49.560 --> 21:52.560 Just take it easy, old man. 21:52.560 --> 21:54.560 You got no complaints. 21:54.560 --> 21:58.560 You're 20 grand ahead of the game. 21:58.560 --> 21:59.560 Look at this, Jeff. 21:59.560 --> 22:01.560 Wind blew a piece of driftwood through the window. 22:01.560 --> 22:02.560 Come on, we got to get out of here. 22:02.560 --> 22:03.560 All right, let's go. 22:03.560 --> 22:04.560 Grab one end of that chair. 22:04.560 --> 22:05.560 Wait a minute, you forgetting something? 22:05.560 --> 22:06.560 What? 22:06.560 --> 22:07.560 The sack fell on the table. 22:07.560 --> 22:10.560 Oh, yeah. 22:10.560 --> 22:11.560 Here, Pop. 22:11.560 --> 22:15.560 Here's one for you as a souvenir. 22:15.560 --> 22:16.560 Come on, come on, Jeff. 22:16.560 --> 22:19.560 We got to get this thing across the sand spit before the tide comes in. 22:19.560 --> 22:21.560 Yeah, we're all finished here. 22:21.560 --> 22:23.560 So long, Pop. 22:23.560 --> 22:25.560 Oh, my treasure, my treasure. 22:25.560 --> 22:26.560 Thanks, Pop. 22:26.560 --> 22:28.560 Thanks a million. 22:28.560 --> 22:34.560 Thanks a million. 22:34.560 --> 22:38.560 And they were gone, walking slowly across the dunes with their heavy burden. 22:38.560 --> 22:42.560 I watched them, unaware of the sheets of rain driving through the open door of the cottage, 22:42.560 --> 22:46.560 unaware that the house itself was shuddering from the impact of the storm, 22:46.560 --> 22:49.560 unaware that the wind had shifted from northeast to southeast. 22:49.560 --> 22:53.560 And suddenly I became conscious of my great danger. 22:53.560 --> 22:56.560 The thin frame cottage was creaking and shaking. 22:56.560 --> 23:00.560 It was shaking from the relentless wind, and the sound of the storms had a familiar tone, 23:00.560 --> 23:04.560 a tone I had heard once before, and then I realized the wind had shifted. 23:04.560 --> 23:06.560 I realized this was no ordinary storm. 23:06.560 --> 23:09.560 This was a hurricane. 23:09.560 --> 23:13.560 Outside, the waves were piling up, coming closer and closer to the cottage. 23:13.560 --> 23:17.560 Over my head, there was an ominous crunching, ripping, and the eaves. 23:17.560 --> 23:19.560 I could see the great daylight through the eaves. 23:19.560 --> 23:21.560 The roof would blow loose any moment. 23:21.560 --> 23:25.560 I threw myself against the kitchen door and, crouching low, ran away from the sea. 23:25.560 --> 23:34.560 Down behind the shelter of a high dune, 23:34.560 --> 23:38.560 I stumbled against the cranberry bush and fell flat, spread eagles on the sand. 23:38.560 --> 23:43.560 And suddenly, suddenly the wind stopped, the rain stopped, and there was the calm of death. 23:43.560 --> 23:49.560 It was the center of the hurricane, the eye, the moment of respite before the final fury of the storm. 23:49.560 --> 23:54.560 And I remembered the curse and wished aloud for its fulfillment. 23:54.560 --> 23:57.560 And there was no sound but the booming of the furious surf. 23:57.560 --> 23:59.560 And then, then there seemed to be a distant human cry. 23:59.560 --> 24:02.560 I looked, I looked toward the rocky gods. 24:02.560 --> 24:07.560 Far in the distance, for an instant, I could see the tiny, struggling figures of my tormentors. 24:07.560 --> 24:14.560 And then a giant wave crashed down on them, and they, and the spit, disappeared in boiling, angry water. 24:14.560 --> 24:41.560 And the wet heavens descended again, hurled upon me by the tail of the hurricane. 24:41.560 --> 24:47.560 I woke with a light in my eyes, a light brighter and bigger and closer than the sun. 24:47.560 --> 24:49.560 And I heard a voice. 24:49.560 --> 24:50.560 You all right, Mr. Gaspar? 24:50.560 --> 24:51.560 Who? 24:51.560 --> 24:53.560 It's me, Tris Weatherby. 24:53.560 --> 24:55.560 Got out here as soon as I could. 24:55.560 --> 24:59.560 We was worried about you. Out here with no radio, you couldn't get the storm warnings. 24:59.560 --> 25:02.560 You come up so fast, wasn't time to get you off. 25:02.560 --> 25:04.560 Oh, thanks. That's very kind of you. 25:04.560 --> 25:06.560 Lucky you got out of the house. 25:06.560 --> 25:07.560 Why? 25:07.560 --> 25:09.560 Ain't there no more. 25:09.560 --> 25:15.560 The ocean came plumb through, carried the house right out into the bay, made two islands out of spreg spit. 25:15.560 --> 25:17.560 The house is gone? 25:17.560 --> 25:21.560 Not a stick of it left. Ten-foot channel where it stood. 25:21.560 --> 25:26.560 Storms play funny tricks. That, uh, kidnappin' I told you about. 25:26.560 --> 25:28.560 Tris, what about it? 25:28.560 --> 25:34.560 Found three bodies out near those rocks, the kidnappers and their victim. 25:34.560 --> 25:36.560 What do you know about that? 25:36.560 --> 25:39.560 Nothing at all. 25:46.560 --> 25:48.560 It is a very funny story, no? 25:48.560 --> 25:51.560 But I cannot laugh. 25:51.560 --> 25:53.560 The joke is on me. 25:53.560 --> 25:55.560 You don't believe me? 25:55.560 --> 25:58.560 But look, here is the gold doubloon. 25:58.560 --> 26:02.560 All that is left of the treasure chest of Danosay. 26:02.560 --> 26:05.560 Yet I know this to be true. 26:05.560 --> 26:09.560 There is a treasure. I saw it, held it. 26:09.560 --> 26:12.560 And that treasure still exists. 26:12.560 --> 26:15.560 Only now there is no map. 26:15.560 --> 26:21.560 But I can tell you, in the rocky surf near the two islands called Spreg Spit, 26:21.560 --> 26:49.560 if you will dare to curse, is the treasure chest of Danosay. 26:49.560 --> 26:52.560 Suspense! 26:52.560 --> 26:56.560 The story of a true buried treasure presented by Auto Light. 26:56.560 --> 27:00.560 Tonight's star, Mr. J. 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